The Makes

26 minutes, 2010
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In the spirit of the Zen riddle about the sound of one hand clapping, a “make” is imagined here as a remake of a film that was never made a first time. The ghost of a movie lurking behind a document attesting to its possibility... Adopting the format of a DVD bonus, this short film is a staged interview with Philippe Azoury, a renowned film critic and Michelangelo Antonioni specialist. The Makes is based on Antonioni’s ideas for films that were never made, published in his book That Bowling Alley on the Tiber. Antonioni’s unrealized cinema finds a new form through an assemblage of various materials that end up giving meaning to each other: found film stills from various unrelated Japanese productions, a precise and surprisingly convincing critical discourse by Azoury, real life sexual anecdotes and an ominous correspondence between Barthes and Antonioni. Exploring the notion of invisible cinema, this montage of unrelated material from the past creates a strangely concrete cinematic experience in the present.

The Makes

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